Quotes About Legacy

our world is a product of the medieval past

In short, anyone who wonders how Western Europe helped to transform the world, for good or ill, into the global civilization that envelops us today must look to the medieval centuries for an important part of the answer.

Many people mistakenly think a new technology cancels out an old one.

Poverty is the curse of ancient but numerous lineages.

What would you have me do, Odo? We're all terminal cases. Even our cultures. Even our worlds. A hundred years for an individual and he's gone, only a memory for a hundred more, at most. Perhaps longer if he's someone to whom they build statues. But after a thousand years, whom do we really remember?

The moral had been clear: Between thinking about one's next term in office and thinking about the next generation was a difference in attitude that could save an entire world—or condemn it.

The main work of haunting is done by the living

Today is Casanova's seventy-third birthday, and he is already suffering from the debilitating painful bladder disorder which will claim his life in two months' time. Considering how many deceived husbands and women must have wanted to kill him during the course of his long life it is ironic that he is destined to die of a urinary infection in the safety of his own bed.

Our finger prints don't fade from the lives we touch.

For many centuries, suicides were treated like criminals by the society. That is part of the terrible legacy that has come down into society's method of handling suicide recovery. Now we have to fight off the demons that have been hanging around suicide for centuries.

The reward of great men is that, long after they have died, one is not quite sure that they are dead.

We are born at the rise of the curtain and we die with its fall, and every night in the presence of our patrons we write our new creation, and every night it is blotted out forever; and of what use is it to say to audience or to critic, Ah, but you should have seen me last Tuesday?

the important people in our lives leave imprints. they may die or go in the physical realm, but they are always there in your heart, because they helped form your heart

Kein Philosoph würde ein dickes Buch schreiben, wenn er im Vornherein wüsste, auf welche Weise er später zitiert werden wird.

Die Nihilisten glaubten immerhin, dass es etwas gebe, an das sie nicht glauben konnten. [...] Wir [...] sind die Urenkel der Nihilisten.

Self-esteem wasn't the issue for my parents or their parents. Survival was their primary goal.

Everything speaks of what it has been: the leg bone of a wading bird holds the image of that bird standing on the mud of a shoreline, poised on its own mirror reflection.

The question is not "Can you make a difference?" You already do make a difference. It's just a matter of what kind of a difference you want to make, during your life on this planet. (Taken from Black and Buddhist, thinking critically and teaching differently in the primary grades by Mary Cowhey)

I come from a culture of handwringers, vengeance seekers, people who name children after ancestors by rote -- first child, paternal grandfather, second child, maternal, and on and on and on.

The questioning of any and all entities, including belief and its objects, is one of Christianity's most impressive legacies; and humanism, its rebellious child, must not be prevented from developing this legacy [ « et l'humanisme, son enfant rebelle, ne saurait être empêché de développer ce legs. » ].

My buildings will be my legacy... they will speak for me long after I'm gone.

Sólo si queda escrito que existimos, lo que hicimos y en qué creíamos, nuestra historia no será olvidada.

fallecido. —Madame no sufrió, pero los últimos días estuvo muy agitada, parecía saber que iba a morir y se lamentaba de no poder despedirse de sus hijos ni de sus nietos, especialmente de usted y de mademoiselle Laura, que eran sus nietas favoritas.

Sin raíces no somos nada, es como si no tuviéramos los pies firmes sobre la tierra. Debe de ser terrible no saber quién es uno, y claro, eso sólo podemos saberlo si conocemos la historia de nuestros mayores.